Dear everyone,
As presented at last year's WikidataCon
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_VxTlBNkyk>, Wikimedia Deutschland has
set out to find new ways for collaboration around Wikidata software
development to enhance the diversity of our movement, increase Wikibase’s
scalability and robustness and breathe life into our movement principles of
knowledge equity. With a grant from Arcadia
<https://www.arcadiafund.org.uk/>, a charitable fund administered by Lisbet
Rausing and Peter Baldwin, we will be able to implement such a
collaboration in the next two years.
Today, we are happy to share an exciting update on the progress of this
project with all of you. After spending the last few months with
conversations with the movement groups who were interested in joining such
a partnership, we have now reached a point where we can spread the news
about the future partners and projects that will shape this Wikidata
software collaboration.
Wikimedia Indonesia, the Igbo Wikimedians User Group and Wikimedia
Deutschland will be joining forces to advance the technical capacities of
the movement around Wikidata development and with this, make the software
and tools more usable by cultures underrepresented in technology, people of
the Global South and speakers of minority languages.
Wikimedia Indonesia, a non-profit organization based in Jakarta, Indonesia
and established in 2008, is dedicated to encouraging the growth,
development & dissemination of knowledge in Indonesian and other languages
spoken in Indonesia. Since then, Wikimedia Indonesia has supported the
development of 14 Wikipedias in the languages spoken in Indonesia, 12
regional Wikimedian communities spread across the country, and two
Wikimedia project-based communities.
For this project, in collaboration with Wikimedia Deutschland, Wikimedia
Indonesia wants to build up a software team of their own in the course of
the next 2 years. The tools will hopefully help under-resourced language
communities contributing to the flourishing of their languages online
through lexicographical data, and also involving the local language
communities in contributing to lexemes in Wikidata.
Igbo Wikimedians is a group of Wikimedians that are committed to working on
various wiki projects related to Igbo language
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igbo_language> and culture. The user group
is organizing projects around community building in the Igbo community,
content improvement for Wikipedia and its sister project and has
established its own Wikidata hub in 2021.
The Igbo Wikimedia User Group and their program of the Wiki Mentor Africa
<https://m.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wiki_Mentor_Africa> is aiming at
building up technical capacity in African Wikimedia communities by
mentoring African developers for Wikidata Tool Development. Wikimedia
Deutschland will support the user group in the implementation of their
project and mentoring program.
Wikimedia Deutschland has been founded in 2004 as a member’s association
and is located in Berlin, Germany. Wikimedia Deutschland support
communities like the Wikipedia community, develop software for Wikimedia
projects and the ecosystem of Free Knowledge, and wants to improve the
political and legal framework for Wikipedia and for Free Knowledge in
general.
Specifically, Wikimedia Deutschland has been working on the development of
Wikidata since 2012. Since then, an active and vibrant community of
volunteer editors and programmers, re-users, data donors, affiliates and
more has formed around Wikidata.
Wikimedia Deutschland will be responsible for the administrative setup of
those collaborations and the communication with Arcadia. We are also happy
to share our experiences and knowledge about establishing software teams,
software development in the Wikidata/Wikibase environment, the Wikidata
community and providing support for emerging tech communities.
If you want to find out more about the partnership, you can read up on this
on our project page on Meta
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Software_Collaboration_for_Wikidata>,
where we will keep updating the community on the progress of this
collaboration. If you have any comments, suggestions or questions please
use the talk page there to get in contact with us.
We are all excited to see those collaborations coming to life!
With kind regards,
Igbo Wikimedians User Group
Wikimedia Indonesia
Wikimedia Deutschland
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Maria Heuschkel
Projektmanagerin
Softwareentwicklung
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
https://wikimedia.de
Unsere Vision ist eine Welt, in der alle Menschen am Wissen der Menschheit
teilhaben, es nutzen und mehren können. Helfen Sie uns dabei!
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Wikimedia Deutschland — Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
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Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
Introducing the Wikidata thesis toolkit
With the focus increasingly on the academic library as a provider of Open Knowledge, the libraries at LSE and York have been working to develop a process to upload research theses metadata to Wikidata in order to extend the access and visibility of scholarly content. We are keen to reduce the development burden for this work across the sector and have compiled a toolkit to give guidance to other academic libraries who are interested in promoting their research in a similar way.
A more detailed introduction to our work can be found here<https://docs.google.com/document/d/14FylUJ9soIqMzH3yCOHHZzPgE7S3cvdZQowhpY2…>, and the toolkit itself can be accessed via the Wikidata Thesis Toolkit<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Wikidata_Thesis_Toolkit>.
Helen and Ruth will be presenting the toolkit at the Metadata and Discovery Group conference<https://www.cilip.org.uk/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1729456&group=201298> in September 2023.
Helen Williams and Ruth Elder
Helen Williams
Metadata Manager, Digital Scholarship and Innovation Group
LSE Library
Houghton Street
London WC2A 2AE
H.K.Williams(a)lse.ac.uk<mailto:H.K.Williams@lse.ac.uk>
ORCID: 0000-0003-1259-7097<http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1259-7097>
Twitter: @HelsHRW
Ruth Elder
Collections Management Specialist
Content and Open Research
Library, Archives and Learning Services
Student and Academic Services
University of York
Heslington York YO10 5DD
ruth.elder(a)york.ac.uk<mailto:ruth.elder@york.ac.uk>
Twitter: @ruthelder2
Greetings Wikidata,
As you may already know, we had an incident last week which caused a subset of users to receive stale results when querying WDQS. The incident occurred from 2023-05-04 1000 UTC to 2023-05-10 at 1030 UTC.
The task for this issue is here[0] and the incident report is here[1] . If you have any questions or feedback on this outage, please respond in the task (recommended) or reply directly to me.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.
Best,
Brian King
SRE, Search Platform Team
Wikimedia Foundation
IRC: inflatador
[0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T336134
[1] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incidents/2023-05-05_wdqs_not_updating_…
Hello,
I’m excited to announce the launch of the Wikimedia Deutschland Hardware
Donation Program
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikimedia_Deutschland_Hardware_Donat…>,
which aims to provide used laptops to eligible Wikidata contributors who
may not have access to the necessary hardware to continue their valuable
contributions to the project.
To apply for a laptop, users must have actively contributed to Wikidata for
at least 1 year. Contributions could include being an editor, conducting
research related to Wikidata, developing software or tools related to
Wikidata, or organizing Wikidata-related training for others. Applicants
must also agree to identify themselves with WMDE and sign a brief agreement
stating that they intend to use the donated hardware to support their
activity on Wikidata.
To apply, simply visit the following link and enter your Username to create
a new page with a preloaded application form: Wikidata:Wikimedia
Deutschland Hardware Donation Program#Applying
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikimedia_Deutschland_Hardware_Donat…>.
Applications will be reviewed by WMDE staff with an observer from the
community, and decisions will be based on the set criteria and the
availability of equipment.
We look forward to supporting the Wikidata community through this program,
and we hope it will help us take another step toward building a better,
more inclusive project for everyone.
If you have any questions feel free to reach out via email or leave a
comment on the project talk page: Wikidata talk:Wikimedia Deutschland
Hardware Donation Program
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata%20talk:Wikimedia_Deutschland_Hardwar…>
.
Cheers,
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Mohammed Sadat
*Community Communications Manager, Wikidata*
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Phone: +49 (0) 30 577 116 2466
https://wikimedia.de
Grab a spot in my calendar for a chat: calendly.com/masssly.
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Wikimedia Deutschland – Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
Hello folks,
Please join us in welcoming Wikimedia's accepted candidates for Google
Summer of Code 2023 [1] and Outreachy Round 26 [2]!
**Google Summer of Code 2023**
1. Ahmed Amine Hassou, Morocco, Wiki Education Dashboard: Refactoring
and upgrading React <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T332976>
Mentors: Sage Ross
2. Chenhao Liu, United States of America, Wiki farm support for Canasta <
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T333773>
Mentors: Yaron Koren, Jeffrey Wang
3. Nikhil Mahajan, India, End-to-end test coverage for Abstract
Wikipedia's Wikifunctions <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T333498>
Mentors: Stef Dunlap, James Forrester, Cory Massaro, Denny Vrandečić
4. Zexi Gong, China, Wikidocumentaries to import images from the web to
Structured Data on Commons <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T332671>
Mentors: TuukkaH, Susannaanas
5. Shashwat Khanna, India, Improve Programs & Events Dashboard UX for
Article Scoped Programs <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T332932>
Mentors: Sage Ross
6. Saurabh Jamadagni, India, Adding a menu to Scribe-iOS application
and expanding keyboard languages <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T333156>
Mentors: Andrew McAllister
7. Ritika Pahwa, India, Commons Android app: Make upload more reliable <
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T332126>
Mentors: Nicolas Raoul, Kaartic Sivaraam
8. Punith Nayak, India, Improve the functionality of VideoCutTool - New
features <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T330465>
Mentors: Gopa Vasanth, Sohom Datta
9. Varun Shrivastava, India, Improve the functionality of VideoCutTool
- Code Quality/Code Health <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T333466>
Mentors: Gopa Vasanth, Sohom Datta
**Outreachy Round 26**
1. Nathaly Toledo, Venezuela, Research imbalances in translation
between languages on Wikipedia <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T333792>
Mentors: Adam Wight, Kavitha A, Simulo
2. Abhishek Bhardwaj, India, Research imbalances in translation between
languages on Wikipedia <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T333097>
Mentors: Adam Wight, Kavitha A, Simulo
3. Sulagna Saha, Bangladesh, Write a Ruby gem for analyzing Wikidata
edits <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T333790>
Mentors: Sage Ross, Will Kent
We would like to encourage accepted candidates to introduce themselves on
this thread and give a brief overview of the project they will be working
on.
We’re so proud of the contributions they have made so far to our community,
and we look forward to having a wonderful time working with them over the
summer. Also, a huge shout-out to the project mentors for their enthusiasm
and commitment!
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2023
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Round_26
Regards,
GSoC / Outreachy Wikimedia organization administrators (Gopa, Sohom,
Srishti)